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Business
Why firms are “delayering”
3 min read
Article Media - PodcastMoney Talks
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how lab-grown stones have upended the market and what that means for De Beers
36:22
Messages can be received, even if none have actually been sent
4 min read
There is a lot more to the Chinese tech giant than its American offshoot
5 min read
Play private equity on expert mode
2 min read
He wants his fast-growing German armsmaker to be bigger still
Britain
Synthesia is Britain’s biggest generative-AI firm. Can the country keep it?
In the bloated health-care system, others are the real money-makers
With Warner Bros and TikTok, the family would be a force in old and new media
How similar is it to the 1990s telecoms bubble?
6 min read
Big pharma faces a reckoning in America
7 min read
Meanwhile, the building of AI data-centres gathers pace
